Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-12
THE LATEST ACCOUNT.
Ohic ais Conceal Information--The he Deadly
Car Stove.

Offic ais Conceal Information--The he Deadly
Car Stove.
KuUTS, IND, October ll.-This after
noon, when the reporters who had been
long delayed in reaching Kouts, owing to
the effectiveness of the railroad officials,
began at last to arrive, there was little III
the aspect Of the village TO indicate the
real locality of the wreck. Only
two of the wounded were still
in the village and the local employees
Of the road were deaf and dumb TO all
seekers after statements OF witnesses, and
the villagers seemed wholly at sea regard
ing the extent OF the disaster. About the
only person about and willing 10 tell the
details of the horror, was DR.. c. W. Mckee.
The doctor is a prosperous looking, intellI-
gent man of about 81, who promptly re-
sponded in the dead OF night TO a call that
he take a hand car and 20 10 the scene of
the wreck, three miles from his residence.
DIR. Mckee rendered noble service.
He had scant time to give his experience
in detail. but stated that to the hest of his
knowledge it would not he over stating
the facts to say that the collision cost the
lives Of fully thirty people. 1t was shortly
after 10 O'Clock this morning when be
reached the wreck, and he Immediately
began to give his services TO the wounded.
Those who were badly hurt when the crash
came, must have had little chance for their
lives so quickly had the cars taken fire,
aud 50 thorough was the work OF the
Il 80 ha
tion and the difficulty of arriving ut
correct idea of its magnitude, the Doctor
said that probably not a soul would have
been made aware of the all but total
wiping out OF the Miller family, had not
their boy been saved. DR.. Mckee stated
that only TWO bodies had been recovered,
and they were so badly Gharred as to be
ALMOST BEYOND RECOGNITION,
the most left of them being a blackened
trunk, and in some cases little beyond a
few handfulS of ashes. They were as fol-
lows: he Miller family, Of Dundee: faith
er, mother. two brothers and girl; their
ii year old bog, Herman, will probably
die also. DIR. Perry, OF North JudsOn, Ind,
DR.. Perry's wife and daughter, and young
Irish lady"
Superintendent Parsons, Of the Chicago
and Atlantic, was seen late IN the after
noon pacing the station platform. tie was
extremely tacituru and was very sure that
no more bodies could he found. Only nine
persons had been killed, he declared, snd
not more than eleven or twelve hurt.
None Of the latter ser eusly. He admitted
that no flaguaD had been sent back from
the passenger train when stop
was made Mr.. Parsons said that
the trainmen depended upon a
semisphore light fully , 600 feet in the rear
Of where the stop was made. Tne con-
ductor of the train had pulled the cord
for this light when he stopped his train.
This would throw the glare Of red danger
signal on the track. The night, however,
was fcggy, and the engineer OF the fast
freight must have failed TO see the signal
Superintendent Parson thought the acci-
dent would have been a very ordinary
one had not the
STOVE IN THE SLEEPER
unset. That caused the destruction of the
| sleeper, two coaches and a baggage car,
and in the main was doubtless the cause
Of the loss of life. The Coroner, Mr.. Par
sons said, reached the scene from Nalpa-
raiso. Ind, at II a. m, and after viewing
| the debris and making some in
ouiries, had found il necessary TO
90 to Huntington, Indiana, in search
of witnesses. The wounded, Mr.. Parson
saws. had been taken from there as early
as possible, and the passengers, who were
unhurt, to the number of twenty
bsd been forwarded to their destinations
without delay.